{{short description|American pianist}} '''Peter Basquin''' is an American pianist and a winner of the Montreal International Music Competition. He attended both Carleton College and Manhattan School of Music where his teachers were Dora Zaslavsky and William Nelson. He was the pianist of the American Composers Orchestra and is Professor Emeritus at the Hunter College.
He had solo appearances at the American and Boston Symphony Orchestras as well as Minnesota, the Westchester Philharmonic and the Hunter Symphony. His conductors during those times were Dennis Russell Davies, Paul Lustig Dunkel, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Gunther Schuller among others. He also collaborated with Lewis Kaplan, Jaime Laredo, Charles Neidich, Nathaniel Rosen, Jacques Thibaud Trio, and Frederick Zlotkin and played with Cassatt Quartet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bowdoinfestival.org/ai_peter_basquin.php|title=Peter Basquin, Piano|publisher=Bowdoin International Music Festival|accessdate=February 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212063330/http://bowdoinfestival.org/ai_peter_basquin.php|archive-date=December 12, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1978 he recorded Marga Richter's 1954 ''Sonata'' which was published by Grenadilla Records the same year. (Richter's Sonata was first recorded in 1956 by Menahem Pressler for MGM recordings.) <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zlfUz0xROOAC&dq=Peter+Basquin&pg=PA34|author=Sharon Mirchandani|title=Marga Richter|year=2012|publisher=Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois|page=34|isbn=978-0-252-07891-0}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://pianolessons.co.uk/ Piano Lesson]
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